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THE JUNIOR DARTS CORPORATION ANNOUNCE Q SCHOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT TOUR 2017

THE JUNIOR DARTS CORPORATION ANNOUNCE Q SCHOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT TOUR 2017

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Created: 17 October 2016

One of the biggest weekends in the Junior Darts Corporation calendar justgot bigger and is taking place in Essex at the Crowne Plaza Five LakesResort on December 3rd & 4th – with ‘Super Saturday’ followed by theinaugural JDC Qualifying School for the Unicorn Development Tour 2017. Atthe completion of this years Development Tour last weekend, the PDPA haveagreed to offer 3 tour cards for JDC members who qualify at their very ownQ school.

First up is Super Saturday, on December 3. Tour 6 will kick off theproceedings as this marks the final Modus UK Junior Tour winner of 2016 andthe last addition to the JDC Allstar team. Following on from Tour 6 thesame day, the UK tour finals event will be played out down to the final atfive lakes in the PDC'S – 'Pathway to the Palace’.

Then, on Sunday December 4, the first ever JDC Qualifying School will beheld at the same venue – with three JDC members qualifying to have theirentry fees secured for all development tour events in 2017.

The weekends events, promise to be one of the most exciting on the JDCcalendar, with plenty of opportunities up for grabs for junior dart playersaround Europe.

Super Saturday will see the final JDC Allstar addition and find the lastModus UK Junior Tour qualifier of the year, with the winner of Tour 6securing £100 and their spot in the ‘finals event’ later that day.

The Finals event itself – with a £3,000 overall prize fund – will see 16players also compete on Super Saturday for the chance to reach the grandfinal at Alexandra Palace London on December 17, to be played during thePDC World Championship, where the overall winner will take £1,000 and amagnificent trophy.

The 16 who qualify for the finals event will comprise of the six UK tourevent winners, plus five players from the UK tour order of merit, and thetop five academy players from the rolling order of merit. Cut-off for therolling order of merit is after week eight of season four within theacademy calendar. Thus giving junior dart players 3 opportunities to makethe last 16.

The Sunday will see the inaugural JDC Q School – with three ‘PDPAscholarships’ up for grabs for JDC members.

Two qualification events will be played on the Sunday, with both winnersreceiving a scholarship pass to all PDC development tour events in 2017.

To determine who secures the third qualification spot, 501 points will beawarded for every leg won during both events, with the leading pointsscorer at the end of the two events earning the final scholarship.

JDC chairman Steve Brown said: “We're mirroring what the PDC do with their QSchool event. The JDC Q School is built around dovetailing into the PDC system. From the very beginning, we wanted to put darts in kids’ handsand then nurture them all the way through, to the development tour andbeyond. With the support of the PDC and the PDPA, we can now achieve thisgoal".

To be able to Participate in Q School you must be 16 yrs old on January 1st 2017. You must also be under 18 on the day of the event on December 4th 2016

Competitors must be a JDC 2016 member to attend Q school.

Details on acquiring membership for 2016, Super Saturday and Q school are available atwww.juniordarts.com

Pictured JDC Allstars Jim Moston and John Brown at the recent PDC youth world championships.